Learning HTML is the best investment I ever did

## Pointless labels It uses labels, which is a happy surprise, but fails to connect them to the right form elements. For a label to describe a form element, you need the element to connect to an ID, not a name. A name attribute is not unique, instead it clusters form elements together. So, you could have a few elements with the same name, but you need to have an ID on each to connect it to the label. … ## A lack of HTML interest and respect As browsers bend over backwards to fix broken HTML, developers stopped caring about it. If it doesn't break the build, it's less important than getting those JavaScript packages bundled. But this, to me, is lazy development. Why rely on a platform to fix bugs that we could avoid if we put in a tiny bit of effort? HTML has some exciting new features for us in 2025. A single element could replace a whole component library. Sure, the component might give us more predictable styling and more control. But it also is one more dependency, and could be a security, performance and maintenance issue. An issue we can't fix as we don't control it.